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Midwest Gasoline Prices: A Review of Recent Market Developments

This report provides background information regarding the especially high gasoline prices in the upper Midwest during the late spring and early summer of 2000. While the Federal Trade Commission is investigating the possibility of collusion, several identifiable factors have contributed to this localized situation. Contributors to the higher prices appear to be problems at two pipelines supplying the area with gasoline, the use of ethanol-only reformulated gasoline in Chicago and Milwaukee, and… more

Date: June 28, 2000

Creator: Kumins, Lawrence C.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Transportation Fuel Taxes: Impacts of a Repeal or Moratorium

Steep increases in the prices of gasoline, diesel, and other transportation fuels have prompted some Members of Congress to seek to ease the effects on households and businesses. Interest has focused on possible repeal or suspension of the levying of all or part of the federal excise taxes on those fuels. Current market conditions and the small amount of tax relief incorporated in most proposals, however, raise uncertainty as to whether prices to individuals and businesses would fall and whethe… more

Date: March 28, 2000

Creator: Fischer, John W. & Gelb, Bernard A.